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plastic041··on Show HN: Reversing YouTube’s “Most Replayed” Graph
Great article! I've always wondered how youtube implemented it. Love the interactive canvases too. But maybe it's just me, the canvases look blurry?

Rendering bezier curves on the client side seems reasonable. Calculating ~400 points and rendering 100 curves would not impact performance, but I wonder if these little interactions would impact performance if added up.

About YouTube's comment about Gangnam Style, it wasn't a tweet. You can't find the original post because it was google+, which is dead. Google said it was a joke shortly afterwards: https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/gangnam-styl...

plastic041··on [dead]
Shouldn't this be Show HN?
plastic041··on Show HN: Playn a privacy first and fast blog platform
I like the design and color choices.

Minor thing: Header looks different in post list page and post view page.

Bug: Table's border-radius clips td's border.

plastic041··on Show HN: Create animated diagrams powered by Opus 4.5
I think the correct url is https://diagramstudio.ai/ . OP's name appears in Demo video.
plastic041··on X to stop Grok AI from undressing images of real people after backlash
Funny that they stopped it. They should have prevented it from happening in the first place. It makes it hard to have a meaningful conversation about AI when one of the largest AI company acts like this.
plastic041··on ASCII Clouds
You can render only single characters. First you need to change the HTML "max" attribute of <input> to 1.1 in the "Glyph Thresholds". And set 0.0 for the desired characters and the characters above. Set 1.1 for the remaining characters.

For example, if you only want the dash, set the dot and dash to 0.0. Then set 1.1 for the plus, ring, and cross characters.

plastic041··on Microsoft didn't rebrand Office to Microsoft 365 Copilot
To*.

I found couple more things to make it even more confusing:

- There is another landing page for Office(3), `m365.cloud.microsoft`. It has completely different design from `office.com`.

- "Microsoft Office" menu in the navigation bar goes to Office(2).

I can understand why they changed 'Microsoft 365 app'=Office(3) to 'Microsoft 365 Copilot'. It's probably because they refer to the apps (Word, Excel...) in Office(2) as "Microsoft 365 Apps". This probably caused confusion with "Microsoft 365 App".

plastic041··on Microsoft didn't rebrand Office to Microsoft 365 Copilot
So, there are 3 offices now.

- Office(1): The office we know: Word, Excel, etc. The current version is "Microsoft Office 2024" with a one-time lifetime licence.

- Office(2): Similar to Office(1), but with a subscription model. This was renamed "Microsoft 365" in 2022.

- Office(3): 'Hub' app for managing Office (1), similar to Unity Hub. This was renamed the 'Microsoft 365 app' in 2022. This was renamed the 'Microsoft 365 Copilot app' a few days ago.

Too make it more confusing:

- microsoft.com/microsoft-365/get-started-with-office-2024 redirects to Office(1).

- microsoft.com/microsoft-365/microsoft-office redirects to Office(2), stating that "Office is now Microsoft 365".

- office.com redirects to Office(3).

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